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People On This Group Are Sharing Examples Of ‘Urban Hell’ That Look Like A Dystopian Movie But Are Sadly Real (40 Pics)
Not every building is as beautiful as the Palace of Versailles. Or blends into its surroundings as well as the Macallan Distillery. On the contrary, there are many structures across the world looking like outcasts that will fall apart during the next storm. In some places, they aren't isolated examples, either — even an entire neighborhood can be an abomination. And you can find them on r/UrbanHell.
It's a photography subreddit of "all the hideous places human beings built or inhabit." The online community invites everyone who wants to explore the darker side of the cities, towns, and villages in our shared world and welcomes any photos which show either ugliness, or a problem in urban development. Rural and suburban nightmares are also allowed.
Below you will find a collection of pics that perfectly describe what this subreddit is all about.
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#1
The Annual Monsoon Ritual Of Mumbai's Ocean Giving Back What Has Been Dumped In It
SlartyBlartFast 5 years ago
If only nature could actually give back all the trash to us, maybe we will see the damage we are doing :(
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#2
Hong Kong Street Life
#3
New Delhi - During Lockdown vs. Now
SlartyBlartFast 5 years ago
For a few months earth took a breath, then humans came back with a vengeance :(
#4
Hong Kong
#5
Beirut Port
#6
Uae Nad Al Sheba III Neighborhood
Darko Pešić 5 years ago
Yea, just kind of sad. Imagine getting drunk and cant figure out what street is yours
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Jo Choto 5 years ago
On the other hand, it looks very clean and well built and very organized. Not very imaginative, but I can think of a lot worse.
M O'Connell 5 years ago
At least in SimCity the building type would vary a little bit (unless we're talking the original SimCity, where each building with the same property value has the same icon, but that could never happen in such a big zone).
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InfectedVoice 5 years ago
Came here to find that, was just going to say vivarium.
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JennyLaRue 5 years ago
It's developments like these that would really benefit from Urban Planners to create nice neighbourhoods that work with their surroundings, rather than these that are just racked and stacked to cram as many in and to hell with how it feels to actually live there
An Co 5 years ago
Real problem is stupidity of 'planning dept.' If you replace every fourth row with one containing appropriate family friendly stuff (grocery story, cheap restaurant, park/bicycle path, bowling alley, pool, drug store), you turn a automobile focused hell hole into a neighborhood.
elfin 4 years ago
Who pays for it? I doubt that the inhabitants have a lot of money to spare.
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Patricia Tornborg 5 years ago
I don’t know where this is, but the name sounds like it may be in a desert, so trees are NOT a “given” for every neighborhood.
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Elsie 5 years ago
Search Nad Al Sheba Villas on google maps these are good living homes. The pictures inside are so amazing
Valerie Page 5 years ago
I just did that. If these are the same houses I take your point. Dubious though
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Lance d'Boyle 5 years ago
OMG! This is my neighborhood. My house is the one with the potted plant out front. It's a mild earth toned colored house. You can't miss it.
Donna Leske 4 years ago
directing an ambulance "take the second right turn into the desert-colored ones, left at 3rd street..."
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Michigan Guy 5 years ago
maybe it's just me....but that's just about exactly...the kind of soul less, inhumane...faux life...that'd get the right kind of person to decide shooting up is infinitely preferable...
Michigan Guy 5 years ago
Or: not very good city planning, no matter how grid like and clean it seems...
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Fatér Dezső 5 years ago
I can't understand y'all. under one post b*tching about homelessness, at the other about the literal cages/prisons where people live. This one seems to be a solution for affordable housing.
NinjaWolfy94 5 years ago
This is what I'm thinking! It looks horrible and depressing honestly, but at least they have a home! I'd rather live here out of the weather than sleep on a bench.
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Martha Meyer 5 years ago
Looks like one of those American suburbs, just with a different housing type.
NinjaWolfy94 5 years ago (edited)
It seems like a depressing and terrible place to live, but I'm sorry, all I can think is- at least the people living there have a roof over their head and a place to call home. I know I personally would rather live there, out of the weather, than sleep on a bench.
Laura Watts 5 years ago
I think it's pretty sometimes neighbourhoods need to be built and comparing it to the Hong Kong one it's 100%better which one would you rather live in ?
Patricia Tornborg 5 years ago
I see much sadness in the group over this. I don’t see that....yes, it’s ugly to look at from the air, but residents don’t see this. Besides, if you were to just stack these houses up, you would have an apartment building that might have a few architectural distinctions at ground level, but the rest of it would be duplex apartments, except WITHOUT THE GARAGES! Yes, folks, they would have to park their cars in a big pit in the ground...much less pleasant than having your own garage!
Hannah Edwards 5 years ago
It is horribly sterile looking and overcrowded, but better than the Hong Kong high rise. It looks like everyone at least has a little private outdoor space on their rooftops
Colleen Bateman Cure 4 years ago
The houses all have the same white stuff on their roofs? Must be air conditioners. That would be horrible, no trees, plants or parks. I notice theres not a lot of cars on the road! Doesnt anyone go to work or school?
Tomaž Sajovic 5 years ago
https://www.propertyfinder.ae/en/buy/villa-for-sale-dubai-nadd-al-sheba-nad-al-sheba-3-7646529.html
Dennis Mahoney 5 years ago
That's what LA needs...10 years ago. Anything to solve its housing shortage problems.
Maria Teixeira 3 years ago
Reclamam da superpopulação, mas não promovem o controle de natalidade nem aprovam o aborto. Ficam nesse moralismo hipócrita. O que adianta nascer tantas crianças que ficarão largadas nas ruas e entidades de cuidados infantis ou terão famílias "vivendo" em condições subhumanas ?
Race Blakhart 4 years ago
Looks like Vivarium. I wonder how many innocent couples are trapped there, raising humanoid, alien babies.
BlackDogsLivesMatter 4 years ago
It looks like Phoenix, Arizona. I dont know how they find their home.
Delphene Marie 4 years ago
They do this on purpose to give an appearance of overpopulation , when I fact this planet is nowhere near over populated... They shove everyone closer together because they are easier to control this way
Athena Murray 4 years ago
I thought those were Legos! It's an eye opener to see how they build a s**t ton of houses crammed together..and it all looks the same.. even though it isn't the case, this view looks like you can open your neighbors windows..
David Henry 4 years ago
It looks like a slightly more realistic Sim City. Except even the original Sim City had a little variety in building types.
Seanny Novak 4 years ago
Reminds me of that simpsons scene "Now remember...we're parked in the 'Itchy Lot'" itchyandsc...b8-png.jpg 
Lise Bouchard 4 years ago
I'd walk into the wrong house sober nevermind drunk..and I would probably do that more than once in the same time frame 😅
Carrie Rodich 4 years ago
Honestly, it looks really cool from above. I wouldn't live there, though.
Maitheunicorn 4 years ago
Ok, so someone clearly let his/heers OCD run free and wild while making plans.... But tbh, it truly gives me the heebie-jeebies.... Super creepy, just like a scary movie set where the main character will try to get out of the "perfect" life of the inhabitants but they won't let him/her 😱😱😱 Every SimCity enthusiast knows that you need living space for ur ppl. Where are the parks and grass and......idk...life?
Reinan Castro 4 years ago
Literally cement jungle!! This is extreme hatred of anything green!!
Ms. Ladybug 4 years ago (edited)
Vivarium creepy weird!...& No area to play back yard grass, personal space just ppl cars & buildings at every turn.. just wow!
Ms. Ladybug 4 years ago
this Looks like “Vivarium” movie nightmare in real life! W/Same everything, lonely looking roads & streets... Creep, scary, weird! ..I’m sure ppl get lost and have lived their long!.. do they all think alike too! Just weird!
Kate Jones 4 years ago
I feel like you could get lost so easily. Like 'turn left at the orange building.' There's a movie called Vivarium where a couple goes to look at a home for sale in a neighborhood like this and then can't escape. They're trapped there for years. It's so creepy.
Jane Sellman 4 years ago
I am quite sure I would forget where I lived and how and have to walk up-and-down the street since I found my place
ravengirl3006 4 years ago
House hunting just got simplier! Just have to decide; a red or orange house?
Omima Miki 4 years ago
I could you imagine being drunk, trying to get home and just giving up...
BRIAM SEKI 4 years ago
We're going to get to a point where we will be packed like cattle and here's the proof, it's sad that this our future and present
Karen Filice 4 years ago
They look like they were all mass produced on a 3-D printer. Makes me think about that song “ little boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky- tacky” from the show called “Weeds” years ago. How could you ever find your way home there?? How depressing this looks….
Marshall Watkins 4 years ago
Talk about a Stepford Neighborhood!! I'd have to GPS my way home everyday!
Vincent Empain 4 years ago
This just looks like a Simcity screenshot (a bad player's one, that is...)
Chris Shaw 4 years ago
Not a tree, a flower, or a blade of grass in sight, how very depressing!
Rumple Schleppskin 4 years ago
Once again..., I'm on the 3rd street after the roundabout, 16th house on the right. It's the orange one.., with a cream colored door, not a white one like my neighbor's.,
Lorie Shewbridge 4 years ago
The coloring is kind of cool, although the area is quite depressing. 🥺
Jan Steuck 4 years ago
I trird Little houses On the hillside Little houses made out of ticky tacky..
Jan Steuck 4 years ago
Little houses on the hillside Little houses made out of ticky tacky Little houses on the hillside And they all look just the same...... Credit..my childhood
Kylie Cantwell 4 years ago
Brings to mind the song "little boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky-tacky..."
GC Rovario-Cole 4 years ago
I would have to use a gps every time I was coming home, no matter how long I lived there.
Olympia Epirus 4 years ago
Well it is hell hot outside Nobody gonna admire your house nor stay outside
Madeline Sellers 4 years ago
I wonder how many people get lost going home at night. "Little boxes ... "
Margo Evans 4 years ago
Cut and paste, over and over. Check out the exact same stuff on roofs.
Mare Freed 4 years ago
It bothers me that there don't seem to be any shops, stores, restaurants, etc. Those are what make a community.
Aaleyah _ aesthetic 4 years ago
I live right next to this place... its also surrounded by desert with polluted and dusty air, and it gets up to 50 degrees celsius I the summer... living the life in Dubai am I right??
Barbie Nealey-Wanhala 4 years ago
Wow, not even a tiny bit of earth or greenery to rest your eyes.
Donna Leske 4 years ago
"The image shows one round-about, as well as row-upon-row of villas. While many on social network Reddit have claimed that the image has indeed been edited to make it look bigger than it actually is, satellite images of the area prove that it really is there." "...more than 1,572 Mediterranean and Moroccan style four and five bedroom villas" "The community features a five kilometer cycling and jogging track, as well as a community clubhouse, restaurant, pool, gym and sports center." I'm not seeing mention of schools, parks, or even a single tree.
Donna Leske 4 years ago
https://www.esquireme.com/brief/news/50084-the-internet-is-convinced-this-picture-of-dubai-is-fake
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Daniele Ribolla 4 years ago
it's not so bad... houses are so good, with pools and great rooms fool of light. look at a living room here "tinyurl.com/yfa43n7c" (without fences 😁) and the other images!
Anita Bouchet 4 years ago
Strange.... Every row of houses has exactly the same things on their roof?
AchillesHeel 4 years ago
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/spongebob/images/e/ed/Squidville_070.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20190615041850
Mishte Tine 4 years ago
Photoshopped. Repeated copies of things on the roof. They aren’t all the same, but there are multiples in different rows. I’m sure the real thing would have sufficed.
Schuyler Kent 5 years ago
It looks like a motherboard for some large electronic device. Soulless.
Linda Farrell 5 years ago
Carefully look at the rooftops. This is Photoshop per as there are many duplicates.
Rebecca Gibson 5 years ago
It's like from the giver. This idea of sameness and regularity nd as production of neighborhoods also crops up in the 1950's right after ww2.
Sarah Beth 5 years ago
Not many cars here! For so many people. At least not many that are parked "permanently".
This is Cutie Ringo Joy 5 years ago
Why all the same color , I live in singapore and there are flats that look similar to mine but the painting is different
Carole Gleed 5 years ago
It’s like the song( ,little boxes little boxes made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same)
Lauren Moore 5 years ago
Little boxes, on a hillside, little boxes made of ticky-tacky, little boxes on a hillside and they all look just the same.
Caroline Cordery 5 years ago
How come a bunch of the roof contents look like copies of each other?
Karen Loftus 5 years ago
Yeah, nothing like the endless rows of cookie-cutter tract houses all around the USA, right? So judgmental.
Katherine Bordier 5 years ago
Wow I would so get lost. I find where I am going based on things I recognize and this all looks exactly the same.
Ruth Nelson 5 years ago
reminds me of a favorite folk song "little boxes made of ticky-tacky and they all look just the same".
Jackie Porter 5 years ago
Little boxes on a hill side and they're all made out of ticky tacky. Little boxes on a hill side and they all look just the same.
James F. Wilson Jr. 5 years ago
If humanity survives the next 40 years, you are looking at 90% of the world's population's future. Can you see your house from here?.
Cecilia Mork-Guyon 5 years ago
I can see the ability for life. It's the getting lost that would concern me.
Teresa Avizienis 5 years ago
This photo reminds me of a song I heard years ago. It was written and composed by Malvina Reynolds in 1962 and recorded the following year by Pete Seeger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-sQSp5jbSQ Pete Seeger - Little Boxes
Warren Brown 5 years ago
So tell me, is there a law that says you can’t paint your own home a different colour ?????
michelle neugebauer 5 years ago
little boxes made of ticky-tacky and they all look just the same
Elizabeth Gardner 5 years ago
bloody frightening. When there in the UAE you only see the beautiful shops and towers and the expensive areas. This is where the workers live you do not get to to see this though.
Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago
"Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky tacky, little boxes on the hillside, little boxes all the same". Song by Malvina Reynolds
Wendy Frances 5 years ago
The OCD part of me appreciates the uniformity in this nightmare neighbourhood
Jane Dorothy Warner 5 years ago
Trees? Where are the trees? I would die if I had to live in a place wihtout trees :(
Peter Kovak 5 years ago
Once I lived in a neighborhood pretty much alike. if you came back after a party, a little bit drunk, was quite messy to find your house.
Khadija Hammond 5 years ago
Disgusting and a nightmare. I’d rather die than live in a place like that.
Tes Glyssane 5 years ago
It looks a bit photoshopped or an artist conception, all the rooftops are in each row are the same.
Fieke Engelen 5 years ago
Little boxes, on the hill side little boxes made of ticky tacky little boxes all the same
Ginny Swart 5 years ago
Council housing? at least they are solid houses, waterproof ( if it ever rains there) and far better than a squatter camp or a tent.
Mjw Gjgema 5 years ago
Where is this Lego box situated? It takes all the fun out of one's life, but maybe are the people happy that they have finally a place to live in.
Sherry Harvey 5 years ago
The house version of office cubicles. Taking away individuality and forcing conformity of the masses.
Edwin Lesperance 5 years ago
Well, there's two different colors, and in each row the buildings are reversed. How much more variety do you need?
Alexei Arntzen 5 years ago
The uniformity of the buildings is probably better for the environment, though, compared to a menagerie of unique homes. The cookie-cutter construction is likely more efficient, and the grid layout probably makes water/energy/waste pipelines more efficient as well. And if any repairs are needed, it would be cheaper and easier to produce new parts, because everything is the same.
AspieGirl88 5 years ago
This makes me think of the film “Vivarium” from Shudder TV movies! So eerie! 😨
Brandi VanSteenwyk 5 years ago
For an up close and intense idea of what this experience might be like, watch VIVARIUM of Amazon.
Brandi VanSteenwyk 5 years ago
To get to my house: "Drive North for 134 houses then turn East and continue for 273 houses. At that point, you should step out of your vehicle and yell my name as loud as you possibly can, in hopes that I will hear it and be able to find you. Because realistically, nobody will really know where you are."
Michael Gaskell 5 years ago
Yea it's just this street on the left with the orange house at the end...
Mangoes'nRum 5 years ago
This is one of many many such newly built housing complexes. Looks worse than it is from the air.
VersaceDreams 5 years ago
I've always wanted to shoot some type of creepy show or movie in a place like this
BlahBlahBlackSheepah 5 years ago
It freaks me out when neighborhood s are cookie cutter. I know some like it but Barcelonas layout makes me claustr6
Randy van Veen 5 years ago
I looked this neighbourhood up on Google maps, and they actually have photos of the inside of one of these villas, and it looks really nice! https://goo.gl/maps/NjmQfDtn91b6ajJj7
Sandra Bartsch 5 years ago
Nighttime trouble: "Did I enter the correct street?" Am I at the beginning or the end of the street?" Happened to me in England at a very similar looking place
Ricky Moore 5 years ago
How many people walk into the wrong houses thinking it is theirs! Lol We done a few of these type of developments years ago, we have better planning rules now, but do cringe when I drive round the old ones and get lost due to no distinguishing characteristics.
Zaza 5 years ago
Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes all the same, There's a red one and a red one, and a red one and a red one. All made out of ticky-tacky and they all look just the same
Mark Howell 5 years ago
As the song says '... little boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look the same.' ;o)
#7
It's Baffling How Fast It Changes
#8
Mumbai, India
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
yep, that's how Trump likes it. He's in his gold-covered chair, you're dying at his feet.
#9
People Offering Prayers At River Yamuna, India, Which Is Frothing From Industrial Waste
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
And none of these fools has the sense to even consider that bathing in industrial waste speeds up your reincarnation process.
#10
Hotel In Łodz, Poland
Samantha Lomb 5 years ago
Its not a nuclear cooling tower. It is for a heating, electric and hotwater generating plant ( TETS in Russian) most are coal or gas powered and that is for releasing steam.
#11
An Interesting Perspective I've Stumbled Upon In Macau A Year Ago
Raven Sheridan 5 years ago (edited)
The difference between the have's and the have not's, in one photo.
#12
Petare, Venezuela
#13
Before And After A Desert Is Turned Into A Soulless Suburb Of A Desert. Jk, Its A Single Photo Of Arizona
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
The water waste hurts. Why do you want lawns in a desert? If you want green lawns, move to England (no offense, England. You have the rainfall, is all.)
#14
Not A Very Romantic Scene
Samantha PandaNotBored 5 years ago
Blame your government’s. This is their fault . They buy rubbish from countries and do not dispose of it correctly.
#15
Naples, Italy
#16
People Living Next To A Helicoidal Street In Chongqing
#17
Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong. Comparison Of 1964 - 2016.
#18
Electrical Wiring And Water Pipes In A Brazilian Favela
#19
Johannesburg, South Africa
#20
Literally, Just Thanksgiving Traffic In La
#21
Private Houses On The Roof Of An Eight-Story Mall In Zhūzhōu, China
#22
Cairo, Egypt
#23
Downtown Seattle, In The Heart Of The Retail District
Yugan Talovich 5 years ago
I don't understand how the US can have money to make bombers but not to help citizens who need help.
#24
Progressive Insurance's Call Center
#25
Hyderabad, India
#26
Ghost City In China, Made To Be A Replica Of Paris - Tianducheng
#27
All Residents Of Whittier, Alaska Live Inside One Building
#28
Manila, Philippines
#29
One More Lane Will Fix It
SlartyBlartFast 5 years ago
In my country the biggest highway is 3 lanes. No city has more than 3 lanes. And we consider it an achievement. I am amazed at this picture honestly!
#30
Somewhere In Brazil In The 90's
M O'Connell 5 years ago
@WilvanderHeidjen They absolutely are homeless. They are squatting in a utilities access cabinet.
#31
Baghdad Between Then And Now!
#32
Billionnaire Vijay Mallya's Mansion Atop A Skyscraper In Bangalore, India
#33
The Capital Of California
#34
Dubai, The Hollow City Of Artificiality
#35
Chongqing, China
Joseph Dowling 5 years ago
Jake: How often does the train go by? Elwood: So often you don't even notice it.
#36
Mirny In Siberia, Russia
Samantha PandaNotBored 5 years ago
All of those houses and infrastructure was built die to that mine . It’s still a working mine right now . Giving ppl jobs homes lives
#37
Ah, Good Old Car Culture...
Red rockin lobster 5 years ago
This is not an urban nightmare (whichever you're reffering to). Also, it's like comparing a clouds and grapes
#38
Block 23, New Belgrade, Serbia
Samantha PandaNotBored 5 years ago
At least they have friendly neighbours. My neighbor wouldn’t take my washing in . 😆
#39
16-Lane Highway Built Through The Downtown Where A Market Square Used To Be In Moscow, Russia
Samantha Lomb 5 years ago
Again context is great. This was done to facilitate troop movements quickly in and out of the capital which proved vital in WWII as the soldiers from Siberia crossed Red Square in the May Day parades and went straight to the front lines to repel the Nazis. The French similarly built huge boulevards in Paris to facilitate troop movements and to keep people from being able to build barricades, which is a French national tradition.
#40
Nobody: Southwest Us Developers:
Olivier Caissy 5 years ago (edited)
Out of curiosity, for what it is, why is it not more square, why all the bends?
#41
Two Cities
#42
Smog In Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
#43
The Apartment I Used To Live In. Dhaka, Bangladesh
#44
An Apocalyptic Landscape With Balloons At The Ghaziabad Industrial Area, India
#45
The Most Depressing City In Russia - Norilsk
#46
Corviale, Rome, One Of The Longest Single Residential Building In The World (1 Kilometer In Length, Housing 8000 Persons)
Nicola Roberts 5 years ago
Until now I never really considered the effect on the landscape. You can have this monstrosity or you can lose the fields so each house can have it's own 20ft piece of land. We've seen both examples in this thread.
#47
My Country Doesn't Make It Often To This Sub, But Here's One: House Under A Highway Bridge, Zürich, Switzerland
#48
Mecca, This Cityscape Is Deeply Unsettling
#49
Anti-Homeless Architecture - Porto Alegre, Brasil, 2021
#50
Endless Parking Lots, Highways, Strip Malls With The Same Franchises All Accessible Only By Car. Topped Off With A Nice Smoggy Atmosphere And A 15 Minute Drive To Anywhere. Takers ?
SlartyBlartFast 5 years ago
Am I the only one that literally feels happier when I get to walk (instead of commute)?!
#51
San Francisco, USA
#52
Jaywick, Essex, UK
#53
Shinjuku, Tokyo
#54
A Graveyard In Hong Kong
#56
Alexandria, Egypt
Natalie 5 years ago
My practical side totally understands the convenience of building the bridge across to make traffic flow easier and avoid congestion. But my romantic side hates the thought of breaking up the gorgeous natural ocean view with a man-made concrete bridge and traffic! Takes the breathtaking and makes it concrete jungle
#57
Salty Hker Here. This Is Far Worse Than Skyscrapers And Apartment Buildings Imo
#58
Bucharest In 1999
Alex Bailey 5 years ago
ARGH! At first look that man on the right appeared to have no head!! (I'm looking at this on a small screen admittedly.)
#59
How People Commute In L.a. (And Most Of America)
#60
Water Pipelines In Our Locality. Kalimpong, India
Rosidah Yahya 5 years ago
country of contradiction, where the poorest live with the richest, only vastly diff areas
#61
Waiting For A Bus At -54°c In Yakutsk, Russia
#62
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
#63
These Unfinished Monorail Lines All Across São Paulo Were Supposed To Be Ready For The 2014 World Cup...
#64
Salem, Or, USA. This Picture Was Taken At 5 Pm Today
Anna Martin 5 years ago
That was last September when much of the state was on fire. I remember that day and have a similar photo of the sky.
#65
Yesterday When It Rained In My City (Luanda - Angola)
#66
Seoul In Winter 1956
#68
Minneapolis, USA
#69
To Avoid Homeless People The City Is Installing Stones Under This Bridge - São Paulo, Brazil
#70
House Of Atomic Engineers, Moscow (400m Long)
Samantha Lomb 5 years ago
It is a wonderful building and what is missing from this context is Soviet built Moscow has a lot of green space as buffers between buildings, which the current government is developing. Additionally they are seizing the Khrushchev era buildings, displacing families to the suburbs and developing the land into expensive condos. This was a house for workers, which they got for free ( tied to their jobs)
#71
"Can We Go To Paris?" -"No, We Got Paris At Home." Paris At Home:
#72
El Helicoide, Venezuela’s Drive Through Shopping Mall Turned Prison
#73
A Cemetery Next To A Factory In Poland
#74
Suburb In The Middle Of The Desert, Arizona, USA
#75
The British Seaside: Where Dreams Go To Die
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Melanie Weatherwax 5 years ago
We urgently need to take better care of our planet.... Birth control and a ban on plastic sound like a good start
De Gueb 5 years ago
May the gods in all their wisdom give you no children but many attempts at making them :,-)
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Persp Gold 5 years ago
Some posts are tragic and a lot are just "I've lived this great life so I can decide anything not idyllyc is hell." Which is just like kicking the terrible photos in the teeth. Urban living has metropolis solutions, which is hardly a hell in most of these photos.
shado 5 years ago
wow ... if you find these few photos "downright terrifying" you need to avoid ANY walkabouts in the USA for the next 50yrs, because that is bound to give you an out-right stroke instantaniously
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B 5 years ago
So many of these images indicate just how jam-packed our world is becoming, especially cities. The overwhelming problem (and all of the world's problems, including global warming) stem from overpopulation. While the deniers will down-vote me, there's an incredibly eye-opening and brilliantly well written thriller novel called 10:59 by N R Baker that contains so many terrifying facts about this issue. It's not my book, so not a self-promo, but I highly recommend that every human on Earth reads it if our species has any chance of survival.
ProfessionalTimeWaster 5 years ago
Better for cities to be jampacked than jungles be ransacked for space.
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Casey McAlister 5 years ago
A lot of these are not "urban hell", they are poverty and decay hell. And those things don't look prettier in the countryside.
ThePracticalSarcastic 5 years ago
Too many comments from narrow-minded people who pass judgement on a place based on a single photograph and have never seen it in person. You all need to travel more and see for yourself rather than through the lens of someone else's opinion/perspective.
Tracy Costa 5 years ago
There are pictures here of pollution, homelessness, and poverty. These are important problems we need to fix. But this article seems to suggest that living in apartment buildings and suburban developments are equally bad. People have to live somewhere and holiday traffic is a first world problem. And keep in mind, country dwellers, if we all moved to you, you would end up living in a crowded city.
Heather G 5 years ago
As someone who's been to multiple 3rd world countries, believe me traffic is not a first world problem. Just looks different.
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Don't Look 5 years ago
Hmmm…. Interesting. Not one of the actual largest slums (all in Asia) but a lot of people judging places they have never been…. Just interesting.
sofacushionfort 5 years ago
To her fair works did nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man. -William Wordsworth
Dhukath 5 years ago
A lot of these images are of one street or location in one city, so it's unfair to judge. Some of the issues raised are not the fault of urbanisation, people have to live somewhere, if not in the cities then where, but down more forward for land? Over population, it's easy to say don't have children when you're in a first world country with health care, social support and child life expectancy is high! What I'm saying is we shouldn't be too quick to judge!
Ted Expert 5 years ago
I can think of one very effective way to avoid having children. But the irony is that the places where kids suffer most, are the places where people have the most kids.
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Lucky2BAlive 5 years ago
And let’s be frank. We can sit here and discuss how appalled we are, or, we can stand up and do something to make this planet a little better. Just imagine 7 billion random acts of kindness at the same time.
Seabeast 5 years ago
How are a bunch of random acts of kindness going to solve overcrowding and pollution?
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Easily Excitable Panda 5 years ago
I'm stunned they left off two of the most horrific: the Johannesburg Tower slum (which was supposed to be a modern miracle, but, well), and the Divis Flats in near Belfast in Northern Ireland. Most of the Divis Flats have been torn down (I think the tower is still standing).
Dorothy Cloud 4 years ago
I quit after 4 or 5 pictures. It just made me ill to think & see how so many poor people have to survive. AND how so many rich people do live.
lunar eclipse 5 years ago
Just makes me think more that we don’t enjoy life anymore. Just work and more work.
Master Love 4 years ago
We just going to continue being gaslighted and go with the lost flow? Elites won't get the fury of justice all we can say it "birth control" "we must take better care of the earth" etc. Really that's all? Force the injection? Never the government that are governed by companies. Never the shells, coca-colas, P&Gs, Nestless? No? We take the blame and the iron first of tyranny but we do nothing. Come on people. This is not conspiracy that ship has sailed this is real scary life realise it becaue your ignorant minds are costing us all on this ONE earth we have.
Ticci toasty 4 years ago
it’s depressing how many people really think we’re the culprits. brainwashing goes deep. definitely see who’s putting this idea in our heads.
Load More Replies... Master Love 4 years ago
So all corporate and elite Gov will never be judged as humans we will bare the blame? People, us, are the ones callin on birth control and adding to the maddness to control human life. What about absolute power control? Why cant the monsantos, BP's, Shells, coca-colas, governments, monopolies get the rage of justice???? Why are we so accepting of all this GASLIGHTING? Because conspiracy is too easy of an escape than to admit that it's real life and our HOME Earth is being RUN into the ground by elitists families and close friends. Divided and concurred. Votes continue, consumption continue, we just continue until a brave magician comes and wipes it all away while we just get to sit, relax and watch? STAND UP FOR YOUR SELVES this complacency is killing us all all they do is stack up the bodies. Are we so scared to loose convenience?
SumGai1986 5 years ago
I love all the typical BP finger-wagging on this post. I'd like to know how many of you have given up your nice suburban homes and sterilized yourselves to solve the population problem. Or do you just come here to virtue signal and think that suffices?
Stitches 5 years ago
I feel like this wouldn’t be happening if an entire generation wasn’t so keen on making everyone have kids, even if they didn’t want them
Don't Look 5 years ago
Accurate. Biggest problems are in east Asia and very much India.
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John Murray 4 years ago
The biggest offenders of urban hell in North America is the endless parking lots in the commercial areas of the suburbs. There is zero sense of community in these car dependent areas. Where do people go to gather and have fun? It's depressing.
HooowlAtTheMoon 4 years ago
Ik this is gonna get downvotes.... but the order and artificiality of some of them bring happiness to my mind. I'm not sure why. I do agree its horrible, i just like looking at it since it's already here.
Ticci toasty 4 years ago
no that’s fine, outside of the reality of how gross and terrible it is, there’s a pattern that many find calming. kinda reminds me of computer boards.
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Damon Tripodi 5 years ago
All these people need to be able to see things through different people's eyes
Amy Jo Buchanan 5 years ago
I agree with this-cleaning up and taking better care of our home is more urgent than ever now. Because we're very close to the point of no return if not already. I read an article about records in the Arctic circle being shattered. 118 degrees. Sad!!! Our glaciers are nearly wiped out now.
Lucky2BAlive 5 years ago
These are all terrifying reality. During the heigh of COVID-19, we saw people at their worst and Mother Nature at her best. The skies were blue again, and crime was down. They lift the quarantine and the skies are brown and crime is like an out take from Purge movies.
CbusResident 5 years ago (edited)
Much of what's pictured are buildings that were built decades ago, so how do those somehow foretell our 'dystopian future'? That's actually just our awkward past. Also, how is this all bad? Cubicles? Each person in one is paying their bills that way. Housing? Well we all need that don't we? People hanging clothes to dry on lines between urban buildings? That's classic old NYC type stuff, but actually that's more eco-friendly than using a dryer. Awkward urban design? Well okay, but there's some of that in every city. Pretty stupid listicle.
Carman Davis 5 years ago
These are some amazing photos!! Here I am in the middle of the country in my state. Closest neighbor is 1/4 mile away. I've never lived in a city so it hard for me to relate. But the photos are still amazing!
Susanna Vesna 3 years ago
Time to move back to the countryside and become self-sufficient. Oh, wait! The government overlords don't want you to become independent.
Random Anon 4 years ago
This isn't a recent phenomenon though. Seeing scenes like these over the decades in three continents has made the now graying me grateful I don't live forever. What we're doing, isn't sustainable. Our economic model isn't sustainable. I don't have anything better and can only hope someone out there does. Or I kick the bucket before the brown stuff hit the spinny blades.
Summer Martin 4 years ago
Lol all of you please stay in your city squalor! Us living in the mid west be winning with our gardens and land! You voted for this and keep voting for this!
Bernice Xkembri 4 years ago
the worst pollution is humans, the world has become trash, both figuratively and literally.
michael johnson 4 years ago
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Adam Sherrill 4 years ago
Mr. Smith from The Matrix had a point in the first movie. Humans are just like a disease. Infecting one area, leaving it dead after it can't serve a purpose anymore, and going off to kill more areas.
veronica bingham 4 years ago
Disgusting what humans have done to the planet! And we just sit back and allow our elected twits to just carry on and make the most ridiculous decisions.
Ginger Lancaster 4 years ago
I feel extremely privileged to have lived most of my life in central California, Oregon, and now Virginia. I am by no means wealthy, probably close to poverty level. After seeing these pics tho, I feel wealthy beyond my wildest dreams.
RAY LAPLANTE 4 years ago
Found all the photos interesting and sad. It lets me know that I have it pretty good.
Addy Hodges 5 years ago
That's. Scary. I think the biggest city I've ever seen is Jackson Mississippi
sharron lynn parsons 5 years ago
This post, has been a learning experience, things I was not aware of !!!
Marjorie Fabian 5 years ago
My mouth hung open in shock as I looked at these photos. I live on a little farm in Central Wisconsin, USA. I can't see any neighbors. The land is lush, green, peaceful and has a variety of wild animals. I love it here, and after seeing this article, I am so VERY thankful for all my blessings. My farm is called "Bountiful"!
Eulalie Grace 5 years ago (edited)
In the late 1960s ZPG became a prominent political movement in the U.S. and parts of Europe, with strong links to environmentalism and feminism. Yale University was a stronghold of the ZPG activists who believed "that a constantly increasing population is responsible for many of our problems: pollution, violence, loss of values and of individual privacy (from Wikipedia) Sound familiar? And we didn't listen...
Daniel Marsh 5 years ago
Manilla, for example, has a population density of far over 100,000 people per square mile. At that population density, the entire Earth could live in a small portion of a single municipality in northern Quebec. People live together because other people offer people opportunity. What you see in the monsoon washback on the Indian coast exists because their socioeconomic development is about where the U.S. was around 1980. And frankly, our trash in the 1980s was pretty damned gross, but we did have more land. And India was where were were in around 1880 not very long ago at all.
openmind123 4 years ago
So, when are we going to stop pointing fingers and blaming and fighting and correcting and just talking about what needs to change or be done differently and actually start taking action to stop these things? When are we going to stop fighting with each other and being against each other's nations? When are we going to unite as human beings and stop relying on our governments to take care of problems for us? When are we actively going to change this whole world TOGETHER as human kind?
Ticci toasty 4 years ago
cute notion but our governments made these messes. we need to hold them responsible. boycotting and activism aren’t viable options for a lot of people. alternatives can be expensive, hard to find, or end up being just as problematic because mass production got a hold of it. it’s a complex issue and no amount of peace and love is going to be enough. we need to get our governments in check.
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Ross Hamilton 5 years ago
What this planet really needs is an extinction level event to get rid of all these ugly pink parasites, until the planet's population is back down below 1 billion.
Briggs Johnson 5 years ago
That is disgusting. How could you even say that? You want 6 billion human lives to be taken? Sure, we need to do something about these problems but killing 6 billion people is not the answer.
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Megumi Saikou 5 years ago
The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. Humanity's worst enemy is itself.
Benjamin Tang 5 years ago
Not true. Every statistic ever has pointed to the fact that the poor ARE getting richer.
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thefaithfulspouse 5 years ago
The planet doesn't have enough resources for everybody in the world to live like we do in the western world.
John Baker 5 years ago
At least you have that choice. Billions of people don't.
Load More Replies... Melanie Weatherwax 5 years ago
We urgently need to take better care of our planet.... Birth control and a ban on plastic sound like a good start
De Gueb 5 years ago
May the gods in all their wisdom give you no children but many attempts at making them :,-)
Load More Replies... Persp Gold 5 years ago
Some posts are tragic and a lot are just "I've lived this great life so I can decide anything not idyllyc is hell." Which is just like kicking the terrible photos in the teeth. Urban living has metropolis solutions, which is hardly a hell in most of these photos.
shado 5 years ago
wow ... if you find these few photos "downright terrifying" you need to avoid ANY walkabouts in the USA for the next 50yrs, because that is bound to give you an out-right stroke instantaniously
Load More Replies... B 5 years ago
So many of these images indicate just how jam-packed our world is becoming, especially cities. The overwhelming problem (and all of the world's problems, including global warming) stem from overpopulation. While the deniers will down-vote me, there's an incredibly eye-opening and brilliantly well written thriller novel called 10:59 by N R Baker that contains so many terrifying facts about this issue. It's not my book, so not a self-promo, but I highly recommend that every human on Earth reads it if our species has any chance of survival.
ProfessionalTimeWaster 5 years ago
Better for cities to be jampacked than jungles be ransacked for space.
Load More Replies... Casey McAlister 5 years ago
A lot of these are not "urban hell", they are poverty and decay hell. And those things don't look prettier in the countryside.
ThePracticalSarcastic 5 years ago
Too many comments from narrow-minded people who pass judgement on a place based on a single photograph and have never seen it in person. You all need to travel more and see for yourself rather than through the lens of someone else's opinion/perspective.
Tracy Costa 5 years ago
There are pictures here of pollution, homelessness, and poverty. These are important problems we need to fix. But this article seems to suggest that living in apartment buildings and suburban developments are equally bad. People have to live somewhere and holiday traffic is a first world problem. And keep in mind, country dwellers, if we all moved to you, you would end up living in a crowded city.
Heather G 5 years ago
As someone who's been to multiple 3rd world countries, believe me traffic is not a first world problem. Just looks different.
Load More Replies... Don't Look 5 years ago
Hmmm…. Interesting. Not one of the actual largest slums (all in Asia) but a lot of people judging places they have never been…. Just interesting.
sofacushionfort 5 years ago
To her fair works did nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man. -William Wordsworth
Dhukath 5 years ago
A lot of these images are of one street or location in one city, so it's unfair to judge. Some of the issues raised are not the fault of urbanisation, people have to live somewhere, if not in the cities then where, but down more forward for land? Over population, it's easy to say don't have children when you're in a first world country with health care, social support and child life expectancy is high! What I'm saying is we shouldn't be too quick to judge!
Ted Expert 5 years ago
I can think of one very effective way to avoid having children. But the irony is that the places where kids suffer most, are the places where people have the most kids.
Load More Replies... Lucky2BAlive 5 years ago
And let’s be frank. We can sit here and discuss how appalled we are, or, we can stand up and do something to make this planet a little better. Just imagine 7 billion random acts of kindness at the same time.
Seabeast 5 years ago
How are a bunch of random acts of kindness going to solve overcrowding and pollution?
Load More Replies... Easily Excitable Panda 5 years ago
I'm stunned they left off two of the most horrific: the Johannesburg Tower slum (which was supposed to be a modern miracle, but, well), and the Divis Flats in near Belfast in Northern Ireland. Most of the Divis Flats have been torn down (I think the tower is still standing).
Dorothy Cloud 4 years ago
I quit after 4 or 5 pictures. It just made me ill to think & see how so many poor people have to survive. AND how so many rich people do live.
lunar eclipse 5 years ago
Just makes me think more that we don’t enjoy life anymore. Just work and more work.
Master Love 4 years ago
We just going to continue being gaslighted and go with the lost flow? Elites won't get the fury of justice all we can say it "birth control" "we must take better care of the earth" etc. Really that's all? Force the injection? Never the government that are governed by companies. Never the shells, coca-colas, P&Gs, Nestless? No? We take the blame and the iron first of tyranny but we do nothing. Come on people. This is not conspiracy that ship has sailed this is real scary life realise it becaue your ignorant minds are costing us all on this ONE earth we have.
Ticci toasty 4 years ago
it’s depressing how many people really think we’re the culprits. brainwashing goes deep. definitely see who’s putting this idea in our heads.
Load More Replies... Master Love 4 years ago
So all corporate and elite Gov will never be judged as humans we will bare the blame? People, us, are the ones callin on birth control and adding to the maddness to control human life. What about absolute power control? Why cant the monsantos, BP's, Shells, coca-colas, governments, monopolies get the rage of justice???? Why are we so accepting of all this GASLIGHTING? Because conspiracy is too easy of an escape than to admit that it's real life and our HOME Earth is being RUN into the ground by elitists families and close friends. Divided and concurred. Votes continue, consumption continue, we just continue until a brave magician comes and wipes it all away while we just get to sit, relax and watch? STAND UP FOR YOUR SELVES this complacency is killing us all all they do is stack up the bodies. Are we so scared to loose convenience?
SumGai1986 5 years ago
I love all the typical BP finger-wagging on this post. I'd like to know how many of you have given up your nice suburban homes and sterilized yourselves to solve the population problem. Or do you just come here to virtue signal and think that suffices?
Stitches 5 years ago
I feel like this wouldn’t be happening if an entire generation wasn’t so keen on making everyone have kids, even if they didn’t want them
Don't Look 5 years ago
Accurate. Biggest problems are in east Asia and very much India.
Load More Replies... John Murray 4 years ago
The biggest offenders of urban hell in North America is the endless parking lots in the commercial areas of the suburbs. There is zero sense of community in these car dependent areas. Where do people go to gather and have fun? It's depressing.
HooowlAtTheMoon 4 years ago
Ik this is gonna get downvotes.... but the order and artificiality of some of them bring happiness to my mind. I'm not sure why. I do agree its horrible, i just like looking at it since it's already here.
Ticci toasty 4 years ago
no that’s fine, outside of the reality of how gross and terrible it is, there’s a pattern that many find calming. kinda reminds me of computer boards.
Load More Replies... Damon Tripodi 5 years ago
All these people need to be able to see things through different people's eyes
Amy Jo Buchanan 5 years ago
I agree with this-cleaning up and taking better care of our home is more urgent than ever now. Because we're very close to the point of no return if not already. I read an article about records in the Arctic circle being shattered. 118 degrees. Sad!!! Our glaciers are nearly wiped out now.
Lucky2BAlive 5 years ago
These are all terrifying reality. During the heigh of COVID-19, we saw people at their worst and Mother Nature at her best. The skies were blue again, and crime was down. They lift the quarantine and the skies are brown and crime is like an out take from Purge movies.
CbusResident 5 years ago (edited)
Much of what's pictured are buildings that were built decades ago, so how do those somehow foretell our 'dystopian future'? That's actually just our awkward past. Also, how is this all bad? Cubicles? Each person in one is paying their bills that way. Housing? Well we all need that don't we? People hanging clothes to dry on lines between urban buildings? That's classic old NYC type stuff, but actually that's more eco-friendly than using a dryer. Awkward urban design? Well okay, but there's some of that in every city. Pretty stupid listicle.
Carman Davis 5 years ago
These are some amazing photos!! Here I am in the middle of the country in my state. Closest neighbor is 1/4 mile away. I've never lived in a city so it hard for me to relate. But the photos are still amazing!
Susanna Vesna 3 years ago
Time to move back to the countryside and become self-sufficient. Oh, wait! The government overlords don't want you to become independent.
Random Anon 4 years ago
This isn't a recent phenomenon though. Seeing scenes like these over the decades in three continents has made the now graying me grateful I don't live forever. What we're doing, isn't sustainable. Our economic model isn't sustainable. I don't have anything better and can only hope someone out there does. Or I kick the bucket before the brown stuff hit the spinny blades.
Summer Martin 4 years ago
Lol all of you please stay in your city squalor! Us living in the mid west be winning with our gardens and land! You voted for this and keep voting for this!
Bernice Xkembri 4 years ago
the worst pollution is humans, the world has become trash, both figuratively and literally.
michael johnson 4 years ago
Boston Terrier puppies. 1 male, 5 females. Both parents are on site. This litter is doing very well and all have nice markings. They are getting coordinated, beginning to show personality and beginning to play with their litter mates. Text Or Call +1 303 479 4513 They will be ready to go on soon and will have their 1st shots and well-baby checkup at the vet by then. Please Email Charlse at https://miraclebostonterriers.com/ to see the litter. Update: the male is spoken for, as well as 3 females, so 2 still available.
Adam Sherrill 4 years ago
Mr. Smith from The Matrix had a point in the first movie. Humans are just like a disease. Infecting one area, leaving it dead after it can't serve a purpose anymore, and going off to kill more areas.
veronica bingham 4 years ago
Disgusting what humans have done to the planet! And we just sit back and allow our elected twits to just carry on and make the most ridiculous decisions.
Ginger Lancaster 4 years ago
I feel extremely privileged to have lived most of my life in central California, Oregon, and now Virginia. I am by no means wealthy, probably close to poverty level. After seeing these pics tho, I feel wealthy beyond my wildest dreams.
RAY LAPLANTE 4 years ago
Found all the photos interesting and sad. It lets me know that I have it pretty good.
Addy Hodges 5 years ago
That's. Scary. I think the biggest city I've ever seen is Jackson Mississippi
sharron lynn parsons 5 years ago
This post, has been a learning experience, things I was not aware of !!!
Marjorie Fabian 5 years ago
My mouth hung open in shock as I looked at these photos. I live on a little farm in Central Wisconsin, USA. I can't see any neighbors. The land is lush, green, peaceful and has a variety of wild animals. I love it here, and after seeing this article, I am so VERY thankful for all my blessings. My farm is called "Bountiful"!
Eulalie Grace 5 years ago (edited)
In the late 1960s ZPG became a prominent political movement in the U.S. and parts of Europe, with strong links to environmentalism and feminism. Yale University was a stronghold of the ZPG activists who believed "that a constantly increasing population is responsible for many of our problems: pollution, violence, loss of values and of individual privacy (from Wikipedia) Sound familiar? And we didn't listen...
Daniel Marsh 5 years ago
Manilla, for example, has a population density of far over 100,000 people per square mile. At that population density, the entire Earth could live in a small portion of a single municipality in northern Quebec. People live together because other people offer people opportunity. What you see in the monsoon washback on the Indian coast exists because their socioeconomic development is about where the U.S. was around 1980. And frankly, our trash in the 1980s was pretty damned gross, but we did have more land. And India was where were were in around 1880 not very long ago at all.
openmind123 4 years ago
So, when are we going to stop pointing fingers and blaming and fighting and correcting and just talking about what needs to change or be done differently and actually start taking action to stop these things? When are we going to stop fighting with each other and being against each other's nations? When are we going to unite as human beings and stop relying on our governments to take care of problems for us? When are we actively going to change this whole world TOGETHER as human kind?
Ticci toasty 4 years ago
cute notion but our governments made these messes. we need to hold them responsible. boycotting and activism aren’t viable options for a lot of people. alternatives can be expensive, hard to find, or end up being just as problematic because mass production got a hold of it. it’s a complex issue and no amount of peace and love is going to be enough. we need to get our governments in check.
Load More Replies... Ross Hamilton 5 years ago
What this planet really needs is an extinction level event to get rid of all these ugly pink parasites, until the planet's population is back down below 1 billion.
Briggs Johnson 5 years ago
That is disgusting. How could you even say that? You want 6 billion human lives to be taken? Sure, we need to do something about these problems but killing 6 billion people is not the answer.
Load More Replies... Megumi Saikou 5 years ago
The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. Humanity's worst enemy is itself.
Benjamin Tang 5 years ago
Not true. Every statistic ever has pointed to the fact that the poor ARE getting richer.
Load More Replies... thefaithfulspouse 5 years ago
The planet doesn't have enough resources for everybody in the world to live like we do in the western world.
John Baker 5 years ago
At least you have that choice. Billions of people don't.
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